After meeting for about an hour and a half with President Barack Obama, CQ Roll Call asked Reid if he would be willing to negotiate on reopening the government as the GOP has demanded.

“Not going to happen,” Reid replied and walked off.

The White House backed Reid in a readout provided by the press office.

“The President and the Senate Democrats will continue to pursue reasonable discussions about our budget challenges after these manufactured crises end,” the White House statement said.

The Nevada Democrat also said the Senate would evaluate the House legislation on a short-term debt limit extension when it gets it. He said that House Republicans seem to change their minds by the hour.

“This is — this is a situation where they do not know what they want,” he said. “I hope the Republicans decide what they want. And we’ll be happy to work with them in any way.

“I repeat for the fourth time right here: Open the government. Let us pay our bills. We’ll negotiate with you about anything.”

And he wasn’t going to let any ‘minibills’ through his blockade of the Senate.
But he let the second one through today.
If he doesn’t ‘win’ soon the WIC mothers and babies will get their bill through , and the Veterans, even Washington DC funding will run the blockade.
NIH cancer treatment patients could even sneak by him- the horror!

Armyspouse1988

This “manufactured crisis” is very real, Harry.

Susan71105

we need to stop congress and Obama’s salaries, that will get this mess straightened out quickly!

Susan Charlene

Susan their 174k per year salaries are mince meat for them. Not paying them in order to get them to act reasonable and put themselves in our shoes won’t work. If they’ve been in DC for more than one term, they have all the money and connections they need.

It’s apparent to everyone that Harry Reid is acting like the spawn of Satan. He is the roadblock, and Obama needs to sit his boy down and read him the riot act. It is almost as if Harry Reid wants to flush America down the fiscal black hole.

califconserv

It’s the old white guy trying to sabotage Obama’s presidency.

william russell

hey you have to be crazy and must be one of the those un informed liberal democrats. Obama has sabotage his own presidency with all the lies, spending, and destroying what the usa was once. If you have not got your health insurance just wait until you find out and especially all the increases and taxes that will come to year after year. Wait until you find out you have obama care however you have to pay the first 3-6000 dollars before insurance kicks in and than you have higher co payments within that. Obama screwed the american people but you must still be drinking the cool aide and will never understand until it is to late and than you will get you head out of the sand and say what happen. It will be to late.

God bless you harry reid, you are only one who knows real and comman people of america, they will looking for you and pry for you, republican and thier tycoon friedn wish to stay in goverment wealfair to end, when never payed taxes. and do not care if amrican stay week and lose, they can live with hundered of pasport on overses with different nationality they have, no loyalty for this poor nation of amrica.so keep support obama aferodable health care for poor people of this nation. when republican do not agrey chang munimum wages even.

That should do it. As a libertarian, I think that the Republicans should offer and approve this.. it should just about finish the country off.

califconserv

Reports out Obama allowing National Parks to open and giving fallen soldiers families death benefits. Gee thank Barack.

sentry1

Reid & Obama are rope-a-doping Boehner.

bob smith

Dirty Harry Reid had another of his scumbag donors go to jail. and this is the same lying POS who claimed fellow mormon Romney had not filed Tax returns for ten years. Reid is a scumbag .

Adrian de la Torre

as long as republicans stand tough in their path, we are going to leave this with the upper hand; this is really the last line of defense against a totalitarian goverment were majorities rule unoppoused and legislate at will; they cannot cave; and i hope they dont, but i dont trust they have that mettle :(

robert97

So who is negotiating, and who is “shutting down” the government?

stephan ostanock

The rethugs are cooked! stick a fork in them and watch them blow themselves up! how funny these nutty fools really think they are winnin ?KIND OF LIKE THE LAST ELECTION,the could not believe it, when they lost LIKE NOW! THEY BE GOIN down hard! ah haah ha ha

william russell

Hey tell harry ried to get screwed if he wants the Republicans to give him obama care, a higher limit of borrowing and spending and than he may talk. If you trust him and the democrats than just look over the last 5 years, no budget passed by senate, no house bills brought to the floor for an up or down vote. I would tell harry reid allow all the house bills to come to the floor for debate and a vote and than we will talk about increasing the debit and a budget. The republicans know loud and clear, you will be a dying third party because the conservatives, a majority of Americans are at the point they are ready to establish a third party call the conservatives who will understand the representatives work for the people and there are in office to carry out what the majority of the people want. If i was a democratic i would also be worried about a third party because there are many democrats that are conservative, do not want to call a republican but would have no problem voting for a conservative candidate. The rhino republicans need to do some serious thinking because the american people are tired of them thinking that we the voter work for them.

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Niels Lesniewski has covered the Senate for CQ Roll Call since January 2010, and more recently as a staff writer and resident procedure guru for Roll Call. Niels holds degrees in both government and theater but sometimes can't tell the difference between the two. @nielslesniewski